The level of natural immunity people acquire from having caught the CCP virus in the past is high and likely to be roughly the same as the protection they will get from vaccination against the disease, scientists have said a new official study shows. Public Health England (PHE) said in a media release on Thursday that its SIREN study of 20,787 healthcare workers had concluded that having previously had the disease gave people at least 83 percent, but up to 99 percent, immunity to reinfection probably for a minimum of five months. Professor Susan Hopkins, Senior Medical Advisor at PHE and the SIREN study lead said, “This study has given us the clearest picture to date of the nature of antibody protection against COVID-19.” ‘Protected From Reinfection’ “We now know that most of those who have had the virus, and developed antibodies, are protected from reinfection,” she said. Though the study …